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Damn, we're getting ever closer to Atwoods law!

"Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-...



I don't know what Silverlight does under the covers, but the event handling language in Flash is Actionscript, which is a dialect of Javascript. So in that sense we're already there.


Silverlight is just C# (or theoretically any CLR language) with XAML layouts and a specialized set of libraries.




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